*The
inevitable question from the dated: what was my Coupé
number in the ranking of economists? I was ranked #120
by citations weighted by number of years since publication; #141 by
unweighted
citations, #184 by citations weighted for co-authorship.

*I
rarely own the copyright of published papers: it has been transferred
to the publisher
of the journal/book.I provide the files
below for individual use only.Please
obtain legal permission from the publisher for reproduction, if it is
necessary.

*My
recent papers are available as PDFs (Adobe Acrobat Portable Document
Files), so they can be read on any platform and printed easily. (Since
my
papers are freely available on the web, I do not ordinarily mail
reprints.)

oIf you
do not have the Adobe Acrobat reader installed, it can be
obtained for free from the Adobe
web page.

*Over 50
zipped data sets for my recent research are available below.
These are usually available as STATA data sets, but sometimes as Excel
worksheets, E-Views work files or in ASCII “dictionary” files
(with
variable descriptions in the headers).If you use my data sets, please acknowledge
this in print where appropriate.More
importantly, if you find an error in one of my data sets or
programs, please
let me know! There are also some sample programs and output.

3.If you do not have a
program to unzip files,
you’ll need one.One (among many) choice
is Winzip; you may obtain it from
their web
site. (And if you can’t handle zipped files, I won’t be able to
help you).

4.I provide my data sets in
their final
“massaged” format, not original source data, except in very special
circumstances.If you’re interested in
source
data, you’ll be able to find it … at the sources (always discussed in
my
papers).I try not to use data sets that are proprietary or confidential.Please do not ask
me to provide data sets that are easily accessible.

5.I don’t typically provide
codebooks, since
they’re embedded: variable descriptions are provided in the STATA data
sets and
in STATA dictionary files.Variable
descriptions and descriptive statistics are also typically provided in
each
output.I also often embed information
into STATA data sets with “notes.”

6.If you do have an issue
with a data set (or
whatever), please ensure I can understand it (e.g., mention which
project and
please be specific with e.g., URLs).I
don’t promise to respond to frivolous or unclear e-mail about data sets.

7.All
my
recent
research
that
is
publicly
available
is
…
publicly
available
here.Please don’t ask me for something that isn’t here unless you’re
either a
friend or very important; I almost surely won’t be able to help you.
Graduate students and others: output files have program code embedded
within. Occasionally a co-author asks me not to post a data set;
in such circumstances, please just ask the co-author. And please
do look before you ask me for something already posted.

8.
Most states have statutes of limitations that are a decade
or less; it's unlikely you'll get help for a very old project.

If
you’re interested in this, you may want to check out “Measuring the
Impact of Regional Export Promotion: The Spanish Case” by Gil-Pareja,
Llorca-Viero, and Martínez-Serrano (University of Valencia).

Another
related paper is “State Visits and International Trade” by Volker Nitsch

Also
of interest is “The Impact of Embassies and Consulates on Tourism” by Gil-Pareja,
Llorca-Viero, and Martínez-Serrano (University of Valencia).

If you
are interested in work like this, consider reading "Crises, Rescues and
Policy Transmission Through International Banks" by Buch,
Koch, and Kotter, and "The
Flight Home Effect" by Gianetti and Laeven.

If you
are interested in work like this, consider reading "Crises, Rescues and
Policy Transmission Through International Banks" by Buch,
Koch, and Kotter, and "The
Flight Home Effect" by Gianetti and Laeven.

oWhile
I have (as of September
2001) responded to all reasonable comments/critiques of my work, I make
no
commitment to doing so in the future.I’m no longer working directly on the topic, and life goes on!

oAn
excellent recent (May
2005) review of this entire literature with special reference to the
Euro is Richard Baldwin’s
“The Euro’s Trade
Effect.”This critique (and my initial
work) has been covered by the Economist
and the Financial
Times.I also recommend Jeff Frankel’s
comments on this paper.

The
line: entry into EMU might raise British trade a lot. This was one of
the
“Submissions from Leading Academics” commissioned for HM Treasury to
assess the
effects of British entry into EMU (I’m #21 starting on p209, but my
work is
much criticized by others).The
underlying research was discussed in the Treasury’s EMU Study “EMU
and Trade”
and mentioned in the Chancellor’s
speech
of
June
9
2003, as well as the more entertaining shadow
chancellor’s critique (Michael Howard, now leader of the British
Conservative party).

If you
are interested in work like this, consider reading "Crises, Rescues and
Policy Transmission Through International Banks" by Buch,
Koch, and Kotter, and "The
Flight Home Effect" by Gianetti and Laeven.